Homework: Portfolio Project Accounting and Finance
You have recently successfully completed an undergraduate course in healthcare finance. You have just accepted a job offer at a local pediatric hospital as the senior department accountant. The hospital is in a rural and underserved area, with a high population of indigent community. Your boss, the CFO, would like a comprehensive analysis of the current financial status of the hospital. He gives you two months to gather and analyze required data and present this to him in a report.
He requires the report cover three main aspects:
i. Review of Financial Health of the pediatric hospital.
ii. Review of the value you'd add to the pediatric hospital as a newly hired senior accountant.
iii. Review of possible sources of funding from the government, that would boost hospital revenue and further health equity.
A detailed delineation of the required aspects follows:
Review of Financial Health of The Pediatric Hospital
I. Identification of ratios to determine the profitability, liquidity, capital structure, and asset efficiency.
II. Determination of Profitability:
i. Identify a ratio that would communicate organization profitability.
ii. Present a formula that would be used to arrive at the ratio identified.
iii. Meaning of ratio.
III. Determination of Liquidity:
i. Identify a ratio that would communicate organization liquidity.
ii. Present a formula that would be used to arrive at the ratio identified.
iii. Discuss meaning of ratio.
IV. Determination of Capital Structure:
i. Identify a ratio that would indicate the capital structure of an organization.
ii. Present a formula that would be used to arrive at the ratio identified.
iii. Discuss meaning of ratio.
V. Determination of Asset Efficiency:
i. Identify a ratio that would indicate efficiency of organization assets.
ii. Present a formula that would be used to arrive at the ratio identified.
iii. Discuss meaning of ratio.
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.